Tsunami Alert For US West Coast Following Magnitude 8.2 Quake Off Alaska

24/01/2018

"Actually, Alaska and the Aleutian islands are the most unsafe area", McCreery said. This was a large natural disaster for this area of the world, and there is a potential that other quakes could happen in the near future.

The natural disaster struck when many would have been asleep with locals saying tsunami sirens are going off and people on the street, Mirror Online reports. "They knew we were there and they didn't let up until we got up and said 'Hey, we're on the go'". The biggest had a magnitude of 5.3.

Earth sciences Prof. Brent Ward of Simon Fraser University said it didn't produce a tsunami because it was a strike-slip quake, where the plates slip sideways past each other. The wave spreads just like a pebble dropping in a puddle, away from where the natural disaster was, possibly causing flooding along the west coast and Hawaii, although thankfully no major waves were reported there.

Fortunately, there was not a tsunami, and the alerts were lifted after a few hours.

He pointed out there's one road out of town and it's a long ways to high ground.

Timmermans said he was in the school's gym by the time he received an alert on his cell-phone and added he was impressed with how many people heeded the warning and made their way to the gym.

M7.9 175mi SE Kodiak City, Alaska 0032AKST Jan 23: "Check with local officials for all clear", the center said in a tweet Tuesday. Watches were canceled for Washington, Oregon, California and Hawaii. Officials in Japan say there was no tsunami threat there.

"I didn't really hear anything where it sounded like I needed to alert them or get them out of bed or whatever", Burch said.

A 7.9 magnitude natural disaster struck around 160 miles (250 km) southeast of Chiniak, Alaska, at a depth of 25 km, at 9.31am GMT (12.31am local time) on Tuesday. It had a preliminary magnitude of 8.2 but has been downgraded to magnitude 7.9. He described the atmosphere inside as calm, with people waiting for updates. The tsunami warnings were canceled nearly three hours after the replication perceptions, and included the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Hawaii.

Given the magnitude of the quake, Perkins said, he thought it best to head to the high school, a tsunami evacuation point, even though in the past he felt his home was probably high enough.

The Tsunami Watch for the California coast has been cancelled, according to the National Weather Service. "An advisory is just to stay away from the ocean because there could be some stronger currents and there could be some smaller-type surges, but no large waves". "The intent is not to scare people or make people evacuate unnecessarily, but we definitely want to err on the side of saving lives". "I'm 400 to 500 feet above sea level".

Alaska's Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management said there have been no reports of damage, so far.

The US National Weather Service (NWS) said tsunami waves of less than 300mm have been confirmed.

That prompted a tsunami warning for coastal Alaska and Canada's British Columbia, while the remainder of the U.S. West Coast was temporarily placed under a watch. A total of more than 100 people in the tsunami zone, from Alaska and down the Pacific coasts of Canada and the United States, were killed.

"Please heed local warnings to move inland or to higher ground", Alaska Governor Bill Walker said in a statement.

A 7.9 magnitude quake struck off Alaska's Kodiak Island early Tuesday, prompting a tsunami warning for a large swath of the state's coast and sending some residents fleeing to higher ground.

State seismologist Michael West said that's likely because the quake was far from shore, in the middle of the Gulf of Alaska.

Based on the information available, Oak Bay chose not to evacuate its two low-lying areas McNeill Bay and near Willows Beach. However, some people have claimed that they felt shaking at the time of the quake.

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